Dalat – Crazy House, Datanla waterfall, and Elephant park

We went to Dalat, which is at an elevation of 1500m.  It was quite crowded and kinda cold during the tet holiday season.  They have an elephant riding place/park there called something like “c.ty co phan du lich sing thai phuong nam”.  the waterfall is down the street from there  and the name on the sign before you go in is “datanla”.   At datanla there is a like a sort of roller coaster ride thing to take you down to the waterfall and back up the hill if you’d like.  It isn’t like a fast or intense ride, think of it more like a slow glide in which you have a break lever if you want to go even slower.  The crazy horse hotel is like a fairy tale place thought up by the ex-president of vietnam’s daughter.  It isn’t a real hotel and it isn’t completed, but there is plenty to look at anyway as you can see from the pictures.  Crazyhouse is mentioned on http://unusual-architecture.com/

If you go to a hotel in vietnam bring your passport because for some reason they need it for you to stay there.  Know also if you take a bus to dalat there are no bathrooms on it, no armrest between seats, and lastly that the toilets at the stops along the way don’t have toilet paper, are disgusting, and are just like holes in the ground you squat over.